# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 206
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4107 "2022-01-13T03:41:40Z")
Seems lawyerly. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4108 "2022-01-13T09:31:53Z")
What are the odds Trump sends the doorman? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4109 "2022-01-13T12:38:12Z")
What are the odds that the doorman never passed it on? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4110 "2022-01-13T12:52:50Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > What are the odds Trump sends the doorman? - > [@enipla](#): > > What are the odds that the doorman never passed it on? - I’m surprised Trump hasn’t denied having a doorman. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4111 "2022-01-13T13:56:35Z")
FWIW, I checked a couple of older news stories about the lawsuit - Michael Cohen is suing Bill Barr and the DOJ over retaliatory imprisonment- and Laufer is Cohen’s attorney in the matter. They served Bill Barr a few weeks ago, on News Year Eve, I think. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4112 "2022-01-13T18:54:17Z")
seditious conspiracy charges are happening against the oath keepers. the leader of the oath keepers and 10ish others are being arrested/charged. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4113 "2022-01-13T19:20:31Z")
related article: [https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/oathkeeper-rhodes-arrested-doj/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/oathkeeper-rhodes-arrested-doj/index.html) > [@](#): > > “All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no intent by him to do anything,” Rhodes allegedly wrote. “So the patriots are taking it into their own hands. They’ve had enough,” he allegedly said on Signal at 1:38 p.m. that day, shortly after the siege had begun. > [@](#): > > According to previous court filings submitted by the Justice Department in other cases, Rhodes said at a November 2020 online meeting, “We’re going to defend the president, the duly elected president, and we call on him to do what needs to be done to save our country. Because if you don’t guys, you’re going to be in a bloody, bloody civil war and a bloody – **you can call it an insurrection** , or you can call it a war or fight.” Yeah, insurrection works - thank-you for the (bolded) honesty. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4114 "2022-01-13T21:01:13Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > “All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no intent by him to do anything,” Rhodes allegedly wrote. On the other hand, this would seem to indicate that Trump was uninvolved in the effort and that they saw him as hindering their movement, not spurring it on. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4115 "2022-01-13T23:06:07Z")
Yeah, wouldn’t it be ironic if tanTrump’s laziness and inability to put two and two together kept him out of jail in the end, but not his enablers? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4116 "2022-01-14T01:07:29Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Yeah, wouldn’t it be ironic if tanTrump’s laziness and inability to put two and two together kept him out of jail in the end, but not his enablers? - Add to that the reluctance of ‘_must defend the institution against accusations of partisanship_’-style Guys With the Power to Do Something, and Trump is likely to be completely safe from being held accountable for anything he did to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. And the same goes for all his co-conspirators who were either Republican office-holders or their staff or appointees (Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark, GOP members of Congress who coordinated with Capitol attackers, etc. etc. etc.). All safe. I hereby predict that Merrick Garland will follow the example of Robert Mueller: investigations and even indictments will occur for outsiders (Russians in Mueller’s case; white-supremacist-org members in Garland’s), but not a hair on the head of any Republican politician will be touched. No matter what they did. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4117 "2022-01-14T21:25:31Z")
> **[Perspective: Glenn Beck is battling COVID-19 again, and it’s bringing out the...](https://www.deseret.com/coronavirus/2022/1/13/22882619/perspective-glenn-beck-is-battling-covid-19-again-and-its-bringing-out-the-worst-in-his-critics)** > > It’s never acceptable to mock people for getting sick, regardless of their vaccination status > He is treating the illness with a combination of drugs, including ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and said on The Mark Levin Show, “My doctors are hitting it really hard.” His “doctors”, or his veterinarian? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4118 "2022-01-14T21:40:44Z")
I’m pretty comfortable mocking Beck myself. You’re told the burner is hot, scoff at people and put your hand on the burner, I will laugh as you scream with your burned hand under the cold water. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4119 "2022-01-14T21:46:39Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > with your burned hand under the cold water Don’t trust Big Water! The best cure for burns is a Mountain Dew enema. /sarcasm ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4120 "2022-01-14T22:11:16Z")
I don’t think we should wish death on anyone, so I will wish Beck a serious Covid infection, combined with complications from ingesting toxins, so that he can live a long, long life in great discomfort, reaping the rewards of his stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4121 "2022-01-14T22:18:04Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > You’re told the burner is hot, scoff at people and put your hand on the burner, I will laugh as you scream with your burned hand under the cold water. You forgot the part about him putting his hand on the burner a second time after learning nothing after the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4122 "2022-01-14T22:18:11Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > > [@Atamasama](#): > > > > with your burned hand under the cold water > > Don’t trust Big Water! The best cure for burns is a Mountain Dew enema. > > /sarcasm Not true. It’s a well-known fact that the best cure for burns is salt. Ya gotta grind it in _real_ good, tho. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4123 "2022-01-14T22:29:51Z")
Any names associated with these “doctors”? State medical associations would/should be interested. Also, “hitting it hard”, always meant to me slamming down alcoholic beverages. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4124 "2022-01-14T22:34:52Z")
Me to the TD, usually before the first hour has passed on the first day of a gig: “Listen, everyone’s tired and cranky and not at their best right now. Waddaya say we all just go home, get some rest and hit it hard in the morning?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4125 "2022-01-14T22:38:44Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > You forgot the part about him putting his hand on the burner a second time after learning nothing after the first time. Good point! The burn scars were supposed to make him resistant to heat afterward, a “natural immunity” perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4126 "2022-01-14T23:05:55Z")
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